escape
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At the same time, however, he hears stories of men paying bribes to avoid army service and later escape the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The jet used in Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan to Turkey belonged to TOA, a subsidiary of the Sodiat Group, though it was being operated by Turkish company MNG Jet during the fugitive journey.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Social media offers another source of information, allowing researchers to identify recurring experiences that might otherwise escape attention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
He was among several medical workers captured while trying to escape the city and sent back, along with Dr Mustafa Ahmed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
I used the rest of the morning to draw a map of the playground and plan multiple escape routes.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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Resistant starch is a type of carbohydrate that escapes much of the usual digestion in the small intestine, allowing it to reach the colon, where microbes can break it down.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The roughly 34,500 defectors to reach the South since 1998 are a fraction of North Korea's 26.6 million people, UN figures show, but the plunging number of escapes has consequences.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
In Le Havre, a war memorial leads him to reflect on his uncle’s aerial exploits in World War II and his great escapes as a pilot and a prisoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
She likens the current situation to a farmer having a bull in a field which escapes and causes destruction – and the farmer blames the bull.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
My brain escapes through my left nostril and goes feral.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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For survivors such as Gaynor Madgwick, who escaped from Pantglas Junior School when the tip collapsed, the images served another purpose.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Stupnikov told her he had escaped the Russian army to give her and his family a better life abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
As mayoral election day nears, four people talk about how they escaped homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
New AI models should likely first be tested in offline "sandboxes", after other companies' models escaped the closed environments used to assess their capabilities, he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
When I craned my neck to take in the pillars of rock, I spotted a lizard crawling through the crags—the first living creature I had seen since we had escaped the dervish.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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As a result, the light escaping from a white dwarf can take on colors that would not normally be expected based on temperature alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Resident Sohail told AFP "everyone began screaming in panic" after his niece managed to find her way home after escaping the building to inform them of the collapse.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has sealed borders with fences, walls and land mines to prevent citizens from escaping to South Korea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"There's no escaping it - everything feels more expensive and it is more expensive."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
All Etruria had finally risen against him, but he had succeeded in escaping.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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